# Our team

### _See also:_ [governance-of-the-unjournal](../management-tech-details-discussion/governance-of-the-unjournal "mention")

_The Unjournal_ was founded by [David Reinstein](https://davidreinstein.org) <img src="https://3160292658-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2Fb1RpEkRWWqZAV4SlrFCt%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-54652e4ef5b627cf72354c70f04e615b5e62e299%2Fimage.png?alt=media" alt="" data-size="line">, who maintains this wiki/GitBook and other resources.

### Management Committee

(Note[^1] on terminology)

See description under [_roles_](../call-for-participants-research#roles)_._

* [David Reinstein](https://www.davidreinstein.org), Founder and Co-director
* [Gavin Taylor](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/gavin-taylor/356), Interdisciplinary Researcher at [IGDORE](https://igdore.org/); Co-director
* [Ryan Briggs](https://www.ryancbriggs.net/), Social Scientist and Associate Professor in the Guelph Institute of Development Studies and Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph, Canada
* [Kris Gulati](https://sites.google.com/view/kris-gulati/home), Economics PhD student at the University of California, Merced
* [Hansika Kapoor](https://www.hansikakapoor.in), Research Author at the Department of Psychology, [Monk Prayogshala](https://www.monkprayogshala.in/) (India)
* [Tanya O'Garra](https://sites.google.com/view/tanyaogarra/home), Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Environment & Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew of School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
* [Emmanuel Orkoh](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hMW0bj4AAAAJ\&hl=en), Research Scientist (fellow) at [North-West University](https://www.nwu.ac.za/) (South Africa)
* [Anirudh Tagat](https://www.anirudhtagat.com/), Research Author at the Department of Economics at [Monk Prayogshala](http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monkprayogshala.in\&sa=D\&sntz=1\&usg=AOvVaw0Q2v2r2Rf_7hISS6yEnqOt) (India)

### Advisory board

See description under [_roles_](https://effective-giving-marketing.gitbook.io/unjournal-x-ea-and-global-priorities-research/readme/call-for-participants-research#roles)_._

[Sam Abbott](https://samabbott.co.uk), Infectious Disease Researcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

[Jonathan Berman](https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/b/berman-j-z-1), Associate Professor of Marketing, London Business School

[Rosie Bettle](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosie-bettle-84a1051b0/?originalSubdomain=uk), Applied Researcher (Global Health & Development) at Founder's Pledge

[Gary Charness](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gary_Charness), Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara

[Daniela Cialfi](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniela-Cialfi), Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory at the University of Chieti (Italy)

[Jordan Dworkin](https://fas.org/expert/jordan-dworkin/), Metascience Program Lead, Federation of American Scientists

[Jake Eaton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-eaton-phd-bb204634/), Managing Editor at [Asterisk Mag](https://asteriskmag.com/): writing and research on global health, development, and nutrition

[Andrew Gelman](http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/), Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University (New York)

[Anca Hanea](https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/697859-anca-hanea), Associate Professor, University of Melbourne (Australia): expert judgment, biosciences, applied probability, uncertainty quantification

[Alexander Herwix](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander-Herwix), Late-Stage PhD Student in Information Systems at the University of Cologne, Germany

[Conor Hughes](https://pop.umn.edu/people/conor-hughes), PhD Student, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

[Jana Lasser, ](https://www.janalasser.at/)Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at Graz University of Technology (Austria)

[Nicolas Treich](https://www.nicolastreich.com/), Associate Researcher, INRAE, Member, Toulouse School of Economics (France)

[Michael Wiebe](https://michaelwiebe.com/), Data Scientist, Economist Consultant; PhD University of British Columbia (Economics)

## Field Specialists

The table below shows _all_ the members of our team (including field specialists) taking on a research-monitoring role (see [here](../organizational-roles-and-responsibilities#field-specialists-fs) for a description of this role).

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## Staff, contractors, and consultants

[Julia Bottesini](https://app.gitbook.com/s/scEoiIiYYQByE1FaibWQ/tools-and-examples/cole_haus-modeling), Research Specialist: Data science, metascience, aggregation of expert judgment

[Jordan Pieters](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true\&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAC8F6_QBDzDncXc8sedfDTnbux1rlhcRsU8\&keywords=jordan%20pieters\&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION\&position=0\&searchId=54d727f6-c121-4404-aa85-30bc2b974c74\&sid=qFJ\&spellCorrectionEnabled=false), Operations generalist

[Kynan Behan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kynan-behan-b36b8a217/), Generalist assistance

[Laura Sofia-Castro](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurasofia/), Communications (academic research/policy)

[Adam Steinberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-steinberg1/), Communications and copy-editing&#x20;

[Toby Weed](https://tobyweed.github.io/), Communications and consulting&#x20;

[Nesim Sisa](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true\&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAjbFsAB2AXvvtZTLLNn6rNFbxXbpo-AwTs\&keywords=nesim%20sisa\&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION\&position=0\&searchId=9be224ea-9806-4316-9c3b-bdc511974fd2\&sid=v-d\&spellCorrectionEnabled=false), technical software support

Red Bermejo, Mikee Mercado, Jenny Siers – consulting (through [Anti-Entropy](https://www.antientropy.org/)) on strategy, marketing, and task management tools

We are a member of [Knowledge Futures](https://www.knowledgefutures.org/). They are working with us to update PubPub and incorporate new features (editorial management, evaluation tools, etc.) that will be particularly useful to _The Unjournal_ and other members.



## Other people and initiatives we are in touch with

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<summary>Substantial advice, consultation, collaborative discussions</summary>

* Abel Brodeur, Founder/chair of the [Institute for Replication](https://i4replication.org/)

- The [repliCATS project](https://replicats.research.unimelb.edu.au/)

* [Eva Vivalt](http://evavivalt.com), Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto

- Other academic and policy economists, such as [Julian Jamison](http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/about/people/profile/index.php?web_id=Julian_Jamison), [Todd Kaplan](http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/about/people/profile/index.php?web_id=Todd_Kaplan), [Kate Rockett](https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/rocke62806/katharine-rockett), [David Rhys-Bernard](https://davidrhysbernard.com), [David Roodman](https://davidroodman.com/about/), and [Anna Dreber Almenberg](https://sites.google.com/site/annadreber/)

* Cooper Smout, head of [https://freeourknowledge.org/](https://freeourknowledge.org/)

- [Brian Nosek](https://www.projectimplicit.net/nosek/), Center for Open Science

* [Ted Miguel](http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/), Faculty Director, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)

- Daniel Saderi, [PreReview](https://prereview.org/)

* [Yonatan Cale](https://il.linkedin.com/in/yonatancale), who helped me put this proposal together through asking a range of challenging questions and offering his feedback
* [Daniel Lakens](https://sites.google.com/site/lakens2/), Experimental Psychologist at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), has also completed research with the Open Science Collaboration and the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative

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<details>

<summary>Some other people we have consulted/communicating, details, other notes</summary>

* Cooper Smout, FoK collaboration possibilities: through their pledges, and through an open access journal Cooper is putting together, which the Unjournal could feed into, for researchers needing a ‘journal with an impact factor’
* Participants in the GPI seminar luncheon

- Paolo Crosetto (Experimental Economics, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) [https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/](https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/)

* Cecilia Tilli, Foundation to Prevent Antibiotics Resistance and EA research advocate

- Sergey Frolov (Physicist), Prof. J.-S. Caux, Physicist and head of [https://scipost.org/](https://scipost.org/)

* Peter Slattery, Behaviourworks Australia

- Alex Barnes, Business Systems Analyst, [https://eahub.org/profile/alex-barnes/](https://eahub.org/profile/alex-barnes/)

* Paola Masuzzo of IGDORE (biologist and advocate of open science)

- William Sleegers (Psychologist and Data Scientist, Rethink Priorities)

* Nathan Young [https://eahub.org/profile/nathan-young/](https://eahub.org/profile/nathan-young/); considering connecting The Unjournal to Metaculus predictions

- Edo Arad [https://eahub.org/profile/edo-arad/](https://eahub.org/profile/edo-arad/) (mathematician and EA research advocate)

* Hamish Huggard (Data science, ‘literature maps’)

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See also [List of people consulted](https://github.com/unjournal/unjournal_gitbook/blob/main/readme/discussion-team/broken-reference/README.md) (in ACX grant proposal).

### [related-ea-gp-seminar-series](../parallel-partner-initiatives-and-resources/related-ea-gp-seminar-series "mention")

### [plan-of-action](plan-of-action "mention")

[^1]: June 2023: We are expanding this team.&#x20;

    This was previously listed as "Founding Committee", occasionally referred to as "Management Team" or "Founding Team". Referred to as "Managers" in the flowchart.
